True Detective is back on our screens, albeit, sans McConaughey and Harrelson. Instead we have Colin Farell, Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn. To celebrate the new season, it’s about damn time we had a look at the mesmerising titles that started every episode of Season One.
by Robbie Jones
True Detective is back on our screens, albeit, sans McConaughey and Harrelson. Instead we have Colin Farell, Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn. To celebrate the new season, it’s about damn time we had a look at the mesmerising titles that started every episode of Season One.
by Helen Langdon
There’s gonna be a lot going around today about the best fathers in the world. But here’s the thing – sometimes the best dads aren’t necessarily the ones that give you part of their DNA. Maybe they’re related, and maybe they’re just convenient male figures in your life. Today we’re taking a look at some of the best surrogate father figures on TV.
by Cookie N Screen
So, are you a binger or have you been pacing yourself? Have you been healthily snacking on Orange is the New Black or are you woozy from 13 course banquet of prison, lesbians and wholesome writing? I’m guessing that most people have been sat there, frothing at the mouth and overcome by the awesomeness that is Orange is the New Black. Season Three has come with a lot of promise after two stellar seasons before it, so it’s natural that there was a lot of pressure. After an emotional pilot episode, exploring motherhood whilst stuck in prison, and the new emotions that come boiling over with visits from loved ones that are so fleeting. So let’s have a look at those epic storylines in a show so totally unforgettable.
by Cookie N Screen
How do you end a television series? Do you, with risk of cancellation and bad figures, perch storylines and characters at the edge of a cliff? Let the audience wait a year, salivating over the threads unwoven? Or do you give them resolution? Allow the next season to be open with no set storyline? Well, Orange is the New Black has found an answer - both.
by Cookie N Screen
The problem with following, in similarity not story, the aspects of Hannibal and the series prequel Hannibal Rising is that they are the heftiest and sometimes the dullest. In fact, most of the time they were dull and unnecessarily so against the backdrop of the thrilling Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon. See, they were weighted with back story and preposition that changed the dynamics of our cannibalistic murderer. After all, wasn’t he more chilling when there wasn’t a sob story to sympathise with? That he only killed the rude and unapologetically so! Those were the good old days.
by Cookie N Screen
I’ve thrown a lot of praise at Outlander recently. None of it is unwarranted, mind, but I am very aware of how much I’ve given to Outlander in term of performances, storyline and evocative themes. Similarly to series such as Hannibal and Orange is the New Black, nothing is perfect and the episodes are certainly going to have wavering levels of excellence as they plod along. For some reason, the return to Lallybroch has squandered a lot of the tension in this episode and the whole hour is placated - sleepy even - which is surprising because it kicks off with someone waving a gun in Jamie’s face...
by Jade Shannon-Turnstill
It may be June, but a dark and endless winter officially arrived at Riley’s in Haymarket on Monday night as guests poured in for the reaction screening of the Game of Thrones Season Five finale.
by Robbie Jones
How the fuck does someone review an episode like that? Like, where to even start? How do we talk about all the good things about this episode when it all goes to shit? How is a person expected to be fully capable of forming sentences after an ending like that? Game of Thrones has done what it’s promised all season, and it has gone out with a bang. And yes, it broke the internet. If we can keep our cool for just a moment, let’s check out the brilliant parts of this episode.
by Cookie N Screen
Our over reliance on technology has been the source of fiction and terror. Where does artificial intelligence and robotic servitude end? The answer is becoming a reality that draws closer every day. Highlighting the general fear that we all have, our cinemas and television shows are opening the doors for creative scientific exploration into the possibility of being replaced by metallic beings made to look like us, who are faster, smarter and have none of that messy “emotions” business. With X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ex_Machina and Chappie all recently devouring the semantics and resonance of sentience in machine, and Terminator Genisys coming up, Channel 4 has waded in on the debate with their stirring television series Humans.
by Cookie N Screen
One of the main issues with season two was separating Will and Hannibal. With the incarcerated Graham stuck lamenting on his bad dues, Hannibal went on a spree trying not to be caught which wasn’t hard with Detective Jack “Hannibal is not a Cannibal” Crawford. The problems with splitting them up for the first half of the series, which was thankfully rectified when Hannibal missed his little experiment and endeavoured to see him escape. See one of the pair is highly interesting while the other has become a little stale and one-note. And you know who I’m talking about. So imagine our dismay when continents separate the pair, instead of confinements. Whilst the opening episode to the series was excellent, the second is lacklustre at best with no really purpose other than to show us one of them is sad. Hint: It’s Will Graham. |
TV Editor: Graham Osborne
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